 | George Monkland - 1854 - 126 páginas
...always takes more interest in his hero, as was observed by the Spectator, when he knows whether he be "a black or a fair man, of a mild or choleric disposition, married or a bachelor." For the same reason, I have added, when in my power, the " local habitation " to the " name," as we... | |
 | Theodore Hornberger - 50 páginas
...immediate, as Elizabeth C. Cook has neatly shown. "I have observed," Addison began, "that a reader seldom peruses a book with pleasure till he knows whether...very much to the right understanding of an author." Franklin's second sentence was: "And since it is observed, that the Generality of People, now a days,... | |
 | Jean-Christophe Agnew - 1986 - 284 páginas
...overcome. "I have observed," Addison wrote in The Spectator's inaugural issue, "that a Reader seldom peruses a Book with Pleasure 'till he knows whether the Writer of it be a black [dark-complexioned] or a fair Man, of a mild or cholerick Disposition, Married or a Batchelor, with... | |
 | Michael Warner - 2009 - 228 páginas
...designed for that function. Here is his famous introduction: I have observed, that a Reader seldom peruses a Book with Pleasure, 'till he knows whether...Writer of it be a black or a fair Man, of a mild or cholerick Disposition, Married or a Batchelor, with other Particulars of the like nature, that conduce... | |
 | Margo Culley - 1992 - 356 páginas
...first issue of Addison's Spectator observed, "a reader seldom peruses a Book with Pleasure, untill he knows whether the Writer of it be a black or a...very much to the right understanding of an Author." It would be asking a lot for the signature on the title page to convey all this, and theorists who... | |
 | Donald E. Pease - 1994 - 356 páginas
...Colonial Newspaper," Journalism Quarterly 45 (1968): 677-86. l have observed, that a Reader seldom peruses a Book with Pleasure, 'till he knows whether...Writer of it be a black or a fair Man, of a mild or cholerick Disposition, Married or a Batchelor, with other Particulars of the like nature, that conduce... | |
 | Arthur E. Cunningham, A. E. Cunningham - 1994 - 194 páginas
...Spectator for 1 March 1710 begins, 'I have observed, that a reader seldom peruses a Book with much Pleasure, till he knows whether the Writer of it be a black or a fair Man, of mild or choleric Disposition, Married or a Batchelor, with other particulars of the like nature, that... | |
 | Charles E. Clark - 1994 - 345 páginas
...especially in the first few lines. Mr. Spectator had begun, "I have observed, that a reader seldom peruses a book with pleasure, till he knows whether the writer of it. . . ." Proteus, acknowledging his debt at the outset without naming his source, used some of the same... | |
 | Leo Bogart - 1995 - 401 páginas
...arts. Joseph Addison wrote in The Spectator of March 1,1711, I have observed, that a Reader seldom peruses a Book with Pleasure 'till he knows whether...Writer of it be a black or a fair Man, of a mild or cholerick Disposition, Married or a Batchelor, with other Particulars of the like nature, that conduce... | |
 | John O. Jordan, Robert L. Patten - 2003 - 358 páginas
...visually anonymous position that "the Spectator" cannily occupied: "I have observed, that a Reader seldom peruses a Book with Pleasure 'till he knows whether...Writer of it be a black or a fair Man of a mild or cholerick Disposition, Married or a Bachelor, with other Particulars of the like nature, that conduce... | |
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